Dornier Maritime Surveillance Aircraft
Source : Indian Express
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What is discussed under Dornier Maritime Surveillance Aircraft?
- Key Facts
- About Dornier aircraft
Why in News ?
India gifted a Dornier maritime reconnaissance aircraft to Sri Lanka a day before a high-tech Chinese missile and satellite tracking ship docks at the island nation’s strategic Hambantota port.
Key Facts
- The aircraft would act as a force multiplier, enabling Sri Lanka to tackle multiple challenges such as human and drug trafficking, smuggling and
other organised forms of crime in its coastal waters more effectively. - Induction of the aircraft is timely in view of the current challenges to Sri Lanka’s maritime security.
- Gifting of the Dornier aircraft underscores the cooperation between the two maritime neighbours in defence and security spheres.
- Such cooperation is envisaged to add further capability and capacity to Sri Lanka and is in line with the vision of Security and Growth for All in the Region (SAGAR).
About Dornier aircraft
- It is being manufactured by state-run aerospace major Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
- Dornier 228 Maritime Patrol Aircraft is a Short Take-Off and Landing (STOL).
- It is a multirole light transport aircraft used by the Indian Navy for electronic warfare missions, maritime surveillance, and disaster relief systems and has been in production since 1981.
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